Louis Darquier de Pellepoix

Louis Darquier de Pellepoix (19 December 1897-29 August 1980) was an Action Francaise municipal councillor of Paris from 1935 to 1940.

Biography
Louis Darquier de Pellepoix was born in Cahors, France on 19 December 1897, and he served in the French Army during World War I and became an active fascist and anti-Semite during the 1930s. On 6 February 1934, he was wounded during the riots at the Place de la Concorde, and he became President of the Association of the Wounded of 6 February 1934, a fascist organization. In 1937, he called for the eradication of the Jews through expulsion or eradication, and, under Vichy France, he served as Commissioner-General for Jewish Affairs from 1942 to 1944. He was sentenced to death in absentia in 1947 for his collaboration with Nazi Germany during World War II, but he fled to Spain, where the fascist dictator Francisco Franco protected him. After the war, he was a Holocaust denier, claiming that the gas chambers were used to kill lice, and that the evidence that they were used for mass murder was a lie told by the Jews. He died near Malaga in 1980.